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As long as I can remember, I have been celebrating Sunday afternoon tea time. Often, when I lived in Oxford, (oh how I miss it), I would go with a friend or child to a favorite place where burials and royalty had walked in the vaults of the ancient church. Warm scones, fresh out of the oven, were as big as a fist, and always accompanied by clotted cream and raspberry or blackberry jam. The tea was so strong it could shake up the drowsiness of an exhausted soldier—but just to my taste.
Why have I kept rigorously faithful to such rhythms in my personal life? Because I know that the more I take care to keep rhythms, to celebrate beauty, to keep meeting with loved ones, I will probably be more likely to hold fast to my faith during hard times. Intensionally filling my cup, regularly at the same rate at which my energy and emotions are depleted helps me to be able to keep giving to others.
Tea time this afternoon brought to mind one of my favorite live heroes—Queen Elizabeth.
I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.
2. Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.
3. When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat, instead they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future.
4. It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the hard progress of humankind.
5. To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?
6.The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the sounds of the heart of its average men and women.
Take a little tea today, reflect on these wonderful words of wisdom and commit to living a life of wonder and wisdom.
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